# Minimal.db

Jefferson M. Dubrule (Jefferson.M.Dubrule@dartmouth.edu)
Sat, 9 Mar 1996 21:41:59 PST

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    --- slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:
    This probably has nothing to do with the way the server works or anything,
    but a good starting verb for eval would be
    notify(player,toliteral(eval(argstr+";"))); . maybe it can go in the readme
    or something.
    --- end of quoted material ---
    Agreed.  On my MOO (DartMOOth), which got off the ground a few days ago,
    we are starting from Minimal.db.  I copied the eval verb from the
    README-Minimal.db (with the addition of a tick counter).  To improve it,
    one of the other wizards wrote a reasonable facsimile of toliteral().  When
    I mentioned the existance of the built-in, he made a comment about hitting
    his head against a wall.

    I can see no advantage that tostr() has over toliteral(), so is this now
    in the server purely for reasons of backwards-compatibility?

    -manta